Jerry Crownover The fun kids today are missing

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By Jerry Crownover

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By Jerry CrownoverNews was made recently when one of the last remaining drive-in movie theaters in the area announced they would be closing permanently at the end of summer. Even though I understand that technolJerry Crownover farms in Lawrence County. He ogy now allows us to click and watch any movie we is a former professor of want on a giant screen TV, I still can’t help but feel Agriculture Education at sorry for today’s young people, missing out on one of Missouri State University, the greatest social events of all times. and is an author and

Sixty years ago, most towns of a certain size had at professional speaker. least one drive-in theater to provide relatively cheap To contact Jerry, go to and convenient entertainment. I grew up in a very ru- ozarksfn.com and click ral area, but there was a drive-in about 20 miles south on ‘Contact Us.’ of our home. If they weren’t showing a movie you wanted to see, there was another one about 30 miles north and yet another about 30 miles east. Gas to get there was 19 cents per gallon and admission was about a buck per adult.

One of the fondest memories of my childhood was when my parents took me and a half-dozen other members of the local 4-H club to the closest drive-in to watch “Tomboy and the Champ,” a movie about a young girl showing a champion Angus steer at the Chicago International Livestock Exposition. For weeks after the event, it’s all any of us could talk about.

Later in life, when I earned my driver’s license, I worked up the nerve to ask a girl out on a date, and finally found one that agreed to accompany me, the drive-in theater ritual began. First, one had to arrive early (before dark) in order to find that coveted space on the back row. Next, you might have to move a couple of times before you found a good quality speaker to hang on your car window. Thirdly, once parked, with the good

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